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"For a Greater Loyola." THE MAROON ESTABLISHED 1923 V0L.77 NO. 23 Loyola University New Orleans FRIDAY, APRIL 23, 1999 The Lost Years Leaving in May Years: 21 Leaving in May Years: 11 By ROBERT TREADWAY Editorial Editor Loyola can add faculty and staff to its list of retention problems. By the end of the semester, it will have lost 54 years of experience in the span of five months. This departure exacerbates a problem caused by last spring's voluntary severance plan. The exodus of 34 faculty and staff members leached 931 years of teaching experience and left holes in the class pool. Frank Scully, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, said some loss of faculty is normal from year to year. "It (this situation) is true of every university. It is the cycle of a college," Scully said. "It is not going to impact the college or affect Leaving in May Left in February Years: 6 Years: 8 the quality of education we give our students," he said. The reason for the faculty departures are varied. Retirement, career change and promotion took their toll. Gayle Parmalee "Loyola is losing a true treasure," Kenneth Bryan, communications senior, said. Gayle Parmalee, director of the ballet program and of the Loyola Ballet Company, will retire at the end of the semester after 21 years at Loyola. Faculty, staff leave for greener pastures; Loyola strains under pressure from missing academics, others Leaving in Summer Years:6 Leaving in May Years: 2 It is true of every university. It is the cycle of a college. It is not going to impact the college or affect the quality of education we give to our students. — Frank Scully, arts and sciences dean The Broadway veteran and 1998 Big Easy Lifetime Achievement Award winner said she will be around part time to help with the choreography of the Loyola ballet and to teach in the preparatory division of the ballet program. Parmalee said the long ballet rehearsal hours she works (from 9 a.m. to 11:30 p.m. everyday) is tiring and taking their toll on her health. She does not look to her future with fear, but with hope. ghgh fghfgh fgdf ƒgfg ƒg 1.. ■ ...lII.J IT amputates Microcenter, bookstore adds arm By PIERCE PRESLEY News Editor Computer gear will join textbooks, basic supplies and memorabilia in the Loyola Bookstore May 3. The bookstore, operated by Follett Higher Education Group, will assume the task of supplying software and hardware to Loyola, formerly the duty of the office of Information Technology's Microcenter. The bookstore began supplying basic office materials when Central Supply moved to Follett control. The most common concern found on campus was whether trained personnel would be available for advice. "I think we will have a problem if there is not anybody that knows the computer technology," said Avia Morgan, Writing Across the Curriculum lab manager. Bookstore manager Julie Rosen said it would add personnel familiar with computers, but the additions wouldn't match the Microcenter head count. "We will be adding people. We won't need as big a staff as they did over there, because paperwork, billpaying,billpaying, receiving will all come in through our back door," she said. The current operator of the store made the move to streamline its operation, director Bret Jacobs said. "One of the things that I've done, coming in this last year, is to look at every department or enterprise unit in my control and decide how we could improve the service we're offering," he said. "When we looked at the Microcenter, we were straddled with two things that were hard to overcome: not having wonderful buying power; not being able to really be open [during) the hours the campus needed." Meeting the customers' needs was the deciding factor, Jacobs said. "We came to the conclusion that rolling this into the bookstore would offer better service to the community and also allow me to transfer some of our key resources back into what 1 consider our primary charge. That is to provide IT services to campus," he said. Rosen said pricing is undetermined, but customers shouldn't worry about a rise. Bogar bolts from athletic department By JOE DANBORN Copy Editor The Maroon has learned that Craig Bogar, athletics director at Loyola since before the university revived intercollegiate sports in 1991, resigned, effective Monday, April 26. Bogar's resignation comes in the wake of last week's news that assistant athletics director Steve Kalbaugh, another major player in the athletics department, may be headed for the athletics director's post at the University of Mobile. Bogar cited philosophical differences with the Rev. Bernard Knoth, S.J., university president, as his main reason for leaving. "I would like to be associated with an institution that adequately supports athletics and highly values athletics," Bogar said in an interview Wednesday. "(Knoth) just wants to go a little more slowly. "I respect Father Knoth's decision to do what he's planning to do: to move slowly in making the program more competitive. We just don't see eye-to-eye." Bogar met with most of his staff at a meeting Tuesday morning to announce his resignation. James Eiseman, vice president for Student Affairs, and Vicki McNeil, associate vice president for Student Affairs, then addressed the athletics staff, saying Bogar's departure would not affect the department's day-to-day operation STAFF FILE PHOTO BY JESSICA JOHANNINGMEIER Boaar resianed as athletic director 'Wolf bucks' replace OR lunch and breakfast in new meal plans By JIM GUNTER Assistant News Editor What we gain: Wolf Bucks, chefs cooking at our sides, and the possibility of more alcohol on campus. What we lose: commuter meal plans and Orleans Room takeouts. Loyola has renewed its contract with Sodexho-Marriott, which operates Loyola Dining Services. The company is developing and implementing a program first proposed earlier this year to the Food Services Committee, which put the dining contract out to bid. It looked into alternative food-service options after a representative survey of 345 Loyola students in December revealed that only 21 percent of resident students and 16 percent of commuter students felt that the meal plans satisfied their needs. Billy Pease, French senior, lives in Biever Hall but said he doesn't buy meal plans. "The food's just not worth it, because I can go out and buy food cheaper on my own," he said. Out of four contenders, the committee decided to renew Marriott's contract in February. Mark Atkinson, director of Loyola Dining Services, said he was pleased with the renewal. "We've been here 13 years. We're looking forward to continuing our relationship with the university." he said. Under the new operations, students will be able to choose from five, seven or nine "all you care to eat" meals, which will be available only in the OR during dinner and weekend brunch hours. Other meals will be paid for from a decliningbalance account of "Wolf Bucks" included in each meal plan. Atkinson said each plan will offer an option of $400 or $600 in the decliningbalance account, and that cash and money on Loyola Express accounts would continue to be accepted at all outlets. See FACULTY, Pg. 4 See BOGAR, Pg. 4 See STORE. Pg.4 See MEAL PLAN Pg. 5 HHfIHBB news nani sports life & times Bellows faces the music Tennis team slammed out Pollen is giving people a Maroon Q & A. of conference something

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"For a Greater Loyola." THE MAROON ESTABLISHED 1923 V0L.77 NO. 23 Loyola University New Orleans FRIDAY, APRIL 23, 1999 The Lost Years Leaving in May Years: 21 Leaving in May Years: 11 By ROBERT TREADWAY Editorial Editor Loyola can add faculty and staff to its list of retention problems. By the end of the semester, it will have lost 54 years of experience in the span of five months. This departure exacerbates a problem caused by last spring's voluntary severance plan. The exodus of 34 faculty and staff members leached 931 years of teaching experience and left holes in the class pool. Frank Scully, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, said some loss of faculty is normal from year to year. "It (this situation) is true of every university. It is the cycle of a college," Scully said. "It is not going to impact the college or affect Leaving in May Left in February Years: 6 Years: 8 the quality of education we give our students," he said. The reason for the faculty departures are varied. Retirement, career change and promotion took their toll. Gayle Parmalee "Loyola is losing a true treasure," Kenneth Bryan, communications senior, said. Gayle Parmalee, director of the ballet program and of the Loyola Ballet Company, will retire at the end of the semester after 21 years at Loyola. Faculty, staff leave for greener pastures; Loyola strains under pressure from missing academics, others Leaving in Summer Years:6 Leaving in May Years: 2 It is true of every university. It is the cycle of a college. It is not going to impact the college or affect the quality of education we give to our students. — Frank Scully, arts and sciences dean The Broadway veteran and 1998 Big Easy Lifetime Achievement Award winner said she will be around part time to help with the choreography of the Loyola ballet and to teach in the preparatory division of the ballet program. Parmalee said the long ballet rehearsal hours she works (from 9 a.m. to 11:30 p.m. everyday) is tiring and taking their toll on her health. She does not look to her future with fear, but with hope. ghgh fghfgh fgdf ƒgfg ƒg 1.. ■ ...lII.J IT amputates Microcenter, bookstore adds arm By PIERCE PRESLEY News Editor Computer gear will join textbooks, basic supplies and memorabilia in the Loyola Bookstore May 3. The bookstore, operated by Follett Higher Education Group, will assume the task of supplying software and hardware to Loyola, formerly the duty of the office of Information Technology's Microcenter. The bookstore began supplying basic office materials when Central Supply moved to Follett control. The most common concern found on campus was whether trained personnel would be available for advice. "I think we will have a problem if there is not anybody that knows the computer technology," said Avia Morgan, Writing Across the Curriculum lab manager. Bookstore manager Julie Rosen said it would add personnel familiar with computers, but the additions wouldn't match the Microcenter head count. "We will be adding people. We won't need as big a staff as they did over there, because paperwork, billpaying,billpaying, receiving will all come in through our back door," she said. The current operator of the store made the move to streamline its operation, director Bret Jacobs said. "One of the things that I've done, coming in this last year, is to look at every department or enterprise unit in my control and decide how we could improve the service we're offering," he said. "When we looked at the Microcenter, we were straddled with two things that were hard to overcome: not having wonderful buying power; not being able to really be open [during) the hours the campus needed." Meeting the customers' needs was the deciding factor, Jacobs said. "We came to the conclusion that rolling this into the bookstore would offer better service to the community and also allow me to transfer some of our key resources back into what 1 consider our primary charge. That is to provide IT services to campus," he said. Rosen said pricing is undetermined, but customers shouldn't worry about a rise. Bogar bolts from athletic department By JOE DANBORN Copy Editor The Maroon has learned that Craig Bogar, athletics director at Loyola since before the university revived intercollegiate sports in 1991, resigned, effective Monday, April 26. Bogar's resignation comes in the wake of last week's news that assistant athletics director Steve Kalbaugh, another major player in the athletics department, may be headed for the athletics director's post at the University of Mobile. Bogar cited philosophical differences with the Rev. Bernard Knoth, S.J., university president, as his main reason for leaving. "I would like to be associated with an institution that adequately supports athletics and highly values athletics," Bogar said in an interview Wednesday. "(Knoth) just wants to go a little more slowly. "I respect Father Knoth's decision to do what he's planning to do: to move slowly in making the program more competitive. We just don't see eye-to-eye." Bogar met with most of his staff at a meeting Tuesday morning to announce his resignation. James Eiseman, vice president for Student Affairs, and Vicki McNeil, associate vice president for Student Affairs, then addressed the athletics staff, saying Bogar's departure would not affect the department's day-to-day operation STAFF FILE PHOTO BY JESSICA JOHANNINGMEIER Boaar resianed as athletic director 'Wolf bucks' replace OR lunch and breakfast in new meal plans By JIM GUNTER Assistant News Editor What we gain: Wolf Bucks, chefs cooking at our sides, and the possibility of more alcohol on campus. What we lose: commuter meal plans and Orleans Room takeouts. Loyola has renewed its contract with Sodexho-Marriott, which operates Loyola Dining Services. The company is developing and implementing a program first proposed earlier this year to the Food Services Committee, which put the dining contract out to bid. It looked into alternative food-service options after a representative survey of 345 Loyola students in December revealed that only 21 percent of resident students and 16 percent of commuter students felt that the meal plans satisfied their needs. Billy Pease, French senior, lives in Biever Hall but said he doesn't buy meal plans. "The food's just not worth it, because I can go out and buy food cheaper on my own," he said. Out of four contenders, the committee decided to renew Marriott's contract in February. Mark Atkinson, director of Loyola Dining Services, said he was pleased with the renewal. "We've been here 13 years. We're looking forward to continuing our relationship with the university." he said. Under the new operations, students will be able to choose from five, seven or nine "all you care to eat" meals, which will be available only in the OR during dinner and weekend brunch hours. Other meals will be paid for from a decliningbalance account of "Wolf Bucks" included in each meal plan. Atkinson said each plan will offer an option of $400 or $600 in the decliningbalance account, and that cash and money on Loyola Express accounts would continue to be accepted at all outlets. See FACULTY, Pg. 4 See BOGAR, Pg. 4 See STORE. Pg.4 See MEAL PLAN Pg. 5 HHfIHBB news nani sports life & times Bellows faces the music Tennis team slammed out Pollen is giving people a Maroon Q & A. of conference something